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A young man obsessed with dragging his family from rags to riches. A young woman willing to sacrifice the same luxury to restore a sense of family. A businessman ready to give up everything for a chance to gain more. When Calvin finds a phone that can call into the past, all three lives converge.While the phone's creator, Monty, built the device for altruistic purposes, his wealthy brother and benefactor, Rob, had other plans, and so Monty fled-only to be robbed and killed in front of his daughter. Many years later, Calvin finds the phone in a Los Angeles pawnshop and soon discovers its unique abilities. Although the phone proves to be Calvin's ticket to riches, he finds himself dialling his way to safety when he learns Rob will stop at nothing to obtain the phone-even if it means prying it from Calvin's cold, dead hands.

As Russell Nowak-McCreary embarks on a journey to a secluded cabin in Canada, memories of lost loved ones intertwine with the healing embrace of nature. Each passing mile triggers vivid flashbacks to a transformative summer spent with his beloved grandfather, offering the hope of a new beginning amid the turmoil of his professional life. The chaotic web of accusations and misconduct surrounding his former boss adds an unexpected layer of complexity to his pilgrimage. The weight of his past and present converge as Russell travels onward, haunted by memories and uncertain of the revelations that await him at the cabin. With the fate of his professional life hanging in the balance, "Unpaved" leads to a convergence of personal and corporate truths.

A Book of Lives Well Lived is the civilian's guide to our incredible military and some of the activities and missions they perform. Detailing Mark Rosenthal's experiences on military bases and training missions on an aircraft carrier, a nuclear submarine, military planes, and at military balls and retirement ceremonies, this provides an eye-opening foray into the professionalism, dedication, and passion they have to protect us each and every day. If you have any interest in the military, this book is for you.

Pat Dolan's father has a box. In it are treasures from Jimmy Dolan's service in World War II-his photos, his medals, his memories. But ten-year-old Pat can't understand why his father refuses to look in the box. After all, the war was a grand adventure, wasn't it?Determined to serve in the Army like his father, Pat enlists nine years later-but it's 1972, and the American military is withdrawing from Vietnam after seven years of futile combat. As an Army combat correspondent surrounded by people growing more desperate by the day, young Dolan quickly learns how bleak the South's prospects are. He is forced to witness the slow, steady death of a nation.When Pat is wounded in action, he wonders if he will live long enough to fill a box of his own. Are there any treasures to be found in a country as fragile as this?

The Man Who Loved Trees tells the story of Frank A. Waugh (1869-1943) and his evolving love for trees. Waugh was a professor of landscape architecture and a pioneering advocate of native planting design. He wrote prolifically about trees and landscape design, publishing over twenty books and three hundred articles. He urged people to enjoy nature in the way that they enjoyed music or painting or sculpture. In the last eight years of his life, Waugh created at least 223 etchings, many portraying trees, but few have been viewed by the public. Annaliese Bischoff was inspired to write The Man Who Loved Trees after stumbling upon the prospectus for Waugh's planned book on tree portraits. It was packed in an orange crate along with over 150 etchings and drawings Waugh had created. Her book describes how Waugh's life as a professional landscape architect and renowned writer inspired him to learn the art of printmaking. Waugh's etchings reflect the themes he used in analyzing nature and in landscape design. Bischoff catalogs Waugh's loving portrayal of trees as individuals, families, and social groups.

It is 1948. Feeling trapped within her farm-life existence as a young wife and mother, Elizabeth harbors a fervent desire to escape to the city of Chicago for a brief respite. While there, she is met with both profound love and devastating loss-experiences that will haunt her for years to come. It is 1975. An unexpected visitor from Elizabeth's past in Chicago upends her quiet life. Meanwhile, one of her daughters finds herself unwittingly caught up in the counterculture battle for control over the emerging Twin Cities' food co-op community, and the other begins to experience mysterious visions. Together, their search for conclusions leads to astonishing discoveries that will impact the entire family.Yet, Here We Are weaves together the threads of how forbidden love and poignant loss shape the life of one woman with the tale of a tumultuous time in our history that changed the course of food co-ops as we know them today.

You can continue to hire the same way you have always done, but you will continue to get the same results. Innate ability hiring adds a third factor to your hiring protocol that significantly increases the odds of you hiring the right person for the job. It's not just a matter of education and experience that qualifies someone for a job or how well their interview went. Those are important, but equally essential is determining a candidate's innate ability. This book teaches you how to identify the six innate abilities in applicants and how to establish your expectations for various job positions better so you can hire right the first time.

Sandwiched between Dr. Samuel Shem's hilarious The House of God and Dr. Eric Manheimer's Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Stewart Lazow's A Surgeon's Memoir: 40 Years at the County takes us on the author's convoluted journey to becoming professor, vice chairman, oral and maxillofacial surgery residency program director, and director of service at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York.Throughout his forty years as a surgeon, Dr. Stewart Lazow witnessed countless patient encounters-some comical, some tragic, some that confirmed his faith in the human spirit-in addition to shocking resident foibles. He had his share of rewarding cases and heartbreaking failures and was utterly dismayed by a fractured, grossly inefficient healthcare delivery system.The County wasn't for everyone. He was just a "County guy."

Growing up as an orphan in a Philadelphia group home, Chris Cho always imagined what his parents might have been like-but he never dreamed that his deceased father would leave him billions of dollars and the ability to create fire.When Chris meets up with Princess Eira, the strong-willed daughter of an ice elemental from a hidden realm, their combined powers and prowess present a serious challenge to Chaoic, a demon of darkness scheming to conquer both of their worlds. Can Chris, Eira, and their friends find the legendary fire relic once safeguarded by Chris's father? Or will they fail to live up to their potential and fall before an ancient evil?

What is spirituality, how do we find it, nurture it, and live it-and how do we apply it to healing from a soul-crushing disease?Alcohol and substance abuse disorders have baffled medical practitioners for centuries because addiction is more than a neurological or physical disorder; it is a malady that eats at the soul. Rise in Recovery: The Spiritual Path for Healing Addiction merges ancient wisdom with neuroscience and covers the powerful effects of using spiritual practices to heal the overall damages of addiction.While neuroscientists have proven that spiritual practices positively affect and heal brain areas, no book has taken this wisdom and applied it to treating addiction. Weaving together intimate first-person and client stories,  Rise in Recovery takes a unique and proven approach that breaks through outdated ideas to bring a sea change in how we can achieve long-term recovery.

First Sergeant John Randall "Randy" Andrews, a gutsy Army Ranger, is a hero among his brothers in arms. But the Purple Hearts and Silver Stars he earned came at a great personal cost. Now plagued by PTSD, Randy returns home after thirteen combat tours to an emotionally distant wife and their two sons-one of them a toddler he's never met.Struggling to piece his life together, Randy finds himself in handcuffs. And when the court-mandated VA counseling doesn't help, he embarks on a trip to Mexico, trying to escape his demons. There, during an unexpected encounter in a seedy tourist bar, he finds a possible road to redemption when he forms a connection with Matilda, a mountain lion kept in a cage as a tourist attraction.So begins his journey back from the brink as he rediscovers something he learned on the battlefield: that sometimes one must cross a line in order to save someone . . . perhaps even himself.